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A tour through the historic center of Guimarães, from the Castle Hill, with its Ducal Palace, Castle and Chapel of S.Miguel, down Rua de Santa Maria, where we visit the Convent of Santa Clara, until we reach Santiago Square, and the Largo da Oliveira, with its old house, and the Collegiate Church of Nª Srª da Oliveira, the Standard of the Salado and the Old Building of the Paços do Concelho. The city of Guimarães seems to have been born already during the period of high middle age, in lands that belonged to the Countess Mumadona Dias and her husband Count Hermenegildo Mendes. After the death of the Count, in the middle of the century. X Mumadona Dias inherited Vimaranes, and would have to execute one of her husband's testamentary monies, the construction of a monastery for friars and nuns dedicated to the Savior of the World, the Virgin Mary and the Twelve Apostles, under the rule of the hermits of St. Pacomius . During the Norman invasions, and in order to protect the monastery against the incursions of the Vikings and Muslims, he built on the hill nearest to the monastery the first fortification, made of wood and earth. He was Head of the territory of the Portucalense County.